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John Mazza made a bold move at recent Planning Commission meeting in an effort to protect the rights of the community members who overwhelming voted in favor of Measure R. Mazza’s decision to leave the meeting represents the frustration that the majority of residents have experienced with a City and City Council, that appears to be listening to one special interest, developers, over another: the MALIBU VOTERS!

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EXIT STAGE LEFT COMMISSIONER MAZZA’S DRAMATIC DEPARTURE FROM A RECENT PLANNING HEARING FORCES THE COMMISSION TO RECONVENE BY STEVE WOODS Taking a stand to represent the 60% of Malibu Voters who in 2014 approved Measure R, Planning Commissioner John Mazza decided to abruptly leave the March 21st Planning Commission meeting preventing a vote on a watered down Formula Retail Ordinance authored by City Attorney Christi Hogin. Hogin’s plan was to have her Retail Ordinance approved at the March 21st meeting with only three Planning Commissioners on the dais and avoid the in-depth deliberations that would take place if all five Planning Commissioners were in attendance. Although noticeably absent from the March 21st Planning Commission meeting, City Attorney Hogin was very vocal about her displeasure with Commissioner John Mazza’s decision as expressed in her comments to the Malibu Times. “By using a procedural trick and leaving the room, John Mazza has become the Mitch McConnell of Malibu.” adding “You suit up, you show up and you play the position that you’ve been assigned, and that’s teamwork,” Hogin said. “So I was disappointed, but it is what it is.” Strong words, but words that totally ignored Commissioner Mazza’s reasons for leaving the meeting.

“Because the proposed ordinance changed major elements of the ordinance passed under Measure R and eliminated most of the provisions that provide formula retail protections voted for by sixty percent of the voters I felt that a full Planning Commission meeting , with all the commissioners present, was necessary. I owed it to the voters of Malibu to have a full and complete hearing on the issue.” Commissioner Mazza explained to the Malibu Times. Mazza is correct that the changes proposed in Hogin’s ordinance are significant and deserve scrutiny by all five members of the Planning Commission and the public. For example the changes in Hogin’s proposal would virtually exclude the Whole Foods Shopping Mall, promoted by Steve Soboroff, from the Formula Retail limits. It eliminates the grandfather exemptions for size in the older centers thereby encouraging new development by providing new centers with a distinct advantage. Rules have been significantly relaxed so that chain stores, such as Nike, could avoid being defined as a chain store by simply changing the color of its signage from blue to red. In short it is an ordinance with a lot of words but no substance. Hogin conveniently failed to explain why the City scheduled this important item for a Planning Commission meeting when they knew, well in advance, that Commissioner Pierson (vacationing in Spain) and Commissioner Jennings (vacationing in India) would not be able to attend. Nor did she explain her rush to get her new Formula Retail Ordinance approved. Since this new Ordinance cannot be adopted unless the Measure R lawsuits (state and federal) are resolved or dismissed. That resolution is still a long way off.

“BY USING A PROCEDURAL TRICK AND LEAVING THE ROOM, JOHN MAZZA HAS BECOME THE MITCH MCCONNELL OF MALIBU.” - CITY ATTORNEY CHRISTI HOGIN Commissioner David Brotman was also clearly unhappy with Mazza’s decision to leave the hearing leaving Brotman and Stack with no control over the outcome not a position Brotman likes to be in. “This smacks of blackmail and I don’t appreciate it” Brotman said. Commissioner Brotman, like Hogan, provided no basis for rushing the vote on this measure. Mazza’s decision to leave the meeting embodies the frustration that the majority of residents have experienced with a City and City Council, that appears to be listening to one special interest, developers, over another: the MALIBU VOTERS! Most Malibu residents agree that Hogin’s admonition to “suit up, show up and you play the position that you’ve been assigned” rings hollow based upon recent confusing statements on her earlier promises to participate in making sure Measure R is defended in the courts. Community supporters of Measure R trusted Hogin’s professional legal expertise when she assured residents that she will stand by Measure R and will defend any appeals, “Anyone who thinks I would shrink from a fight doesn’t know me very well,” Hogin said, adding, “I didn’t read anything in the lawsuit that surprised me or deeply troubled me.” Hogin also stated: “I’m confident that the city will implement it in a way that’s consistent with the Constitutions of the United States and California, and I think it’s pretty quick on the trigger for property owners to run to the court and complain about it,” Hogin said. Hogin scoffed when asked if an outside counsel could be needed to face the suit. At this point, no appeal has been filed and the community is wondering - what team is she playing for? Malibu residents looking for an answer to that question may want to review a court battle taking place in Palos Verdes where residents are questioning Hogin’s involvement in a land transaction that the courts have ruled to be illegal. Christi Hogin is employed as the City Attorney in Palos Verdes Estates and thetwo local newspapers are reporting on lawsuits by Palos Verdes residents accusing Hogin and the PV City Council she advises. Reports of shady transactions where public open space was illegally sold to private homeowners is currently under major scrutiny. Even though a recent court decision agreed with the residents that the sale of this public land to a private resident was illegal, Hogin is aggressively arguing that the City of PVE should appeal the court’s decision, in effect using taxpayer dollars to fight the will of the taxpayers. For More information and documents for on Hogin’s battle in Palos Verdes:. http://www.pveopenspace.com/

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The Zuma Beach land grab on behalf of a New York gallery owner just won’t go away. An unrepentant City Council insists the proposal for a temporary museum to exhibit a pricey private photo exhibition on the beach is the greatest thing for Malibu since, probably, the Whole Foods Market. The on air and internet commentary that took the Council to task for its lack of transparency and failure to follow its own guidelines for such venture generated considerable response, as I comment on 97.5 KBU and everywhere on radiomalibu.net Some were in support of the project, in particular the Cultural Arts Commission, whose purview does not include land use, nor vetting entrepreneurial New York gallery owners or expert oversight skills. But most residents were opposed, pointing out the city’s abuse of its own policies regarding beach use and special interests. This included a public plea, by Mari Stanley, at the last council meeting to rescind the request to the County to approve and aid the project, reveal the project‘s detailed specifics, and hold open hearings. In reply, city attorney Christi Hogin hemmed and hawed that though the council approved the concept for the museum, it was not a commitment, even though the resolution it approved contained that language. According to Hogin, all the Council did was ask the County to cooperate with the promoter Robert Dutesco.

As more and more Malibu visitors seek an escape from the commercial world , it is even more important that Zuma Beach remain as a refuge and as pristine as possible.

And Hogin added if the county approved the concept, it would be returned to the city for proper hearings. We presume this includes full details of the project’s operations, such as construction, entry fees, events, gift shop and financial data. But hopefully the County, who owns and manages Zuma, will just deep six the proposal as being an illegal use of the beach. And the only possible hearings to be held will be to determine how the proposal was broached and a full disclosure of the involvement of the city’s commissioners and councilpersons. There is concern that for the last 22 years the wild stallions of Sable Island Dutesco has photographed have figuratively become dray horses, tied to a cash cow. I trust the City is not being hustled.

WISHTOYO VILLAGE WELCOMES SPRING EQUINOX Bam, bam, ba bam, the drum sticks beat the tightened skins and again and again. Bam, bam, ba bam. The heart beat of the two legged beings vibrated through the air, through the ground, resonating through everyone’s bones, flesh and heart. The Aztec dancers visited Wishtoyo Chumash Village in full feathered regalia for the Spring Equinox Celebration and with hard pounding heels to the earth, gave thanks to the the return of the sun. East and West, mist, smoke and spray, South and North, song and dance. The sun crosses it’s Spring Equinox. The earth tilts again and spring gives birth to a new season of the sun. Local Malibu Chumash elder Mati Waiya and his beautiful wife Luihuisha of Wishtoya Village hosted the visiting Aztec dancers for the spring Equinox celebration with prayers and blessings as pods of Gray Whales spouted plumes of breathe on their primal migration to the north in a season of transition. -STEVE WOODS

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WASHES ASHORE AT PARADISE COVE Millions of red tuna crabs washed onto Malibu area beaches recently repeating a phenomenon experts say occurs when the warm water crabs are caught in currents off of Mexico and carried into colder northern waters. The tuna crabs are a species of Squat Lobster and are one to three inches long, grouped together by the millions in water columns and survive on plankton collected in micro-hairs on their legs. Their scientific name is Pleuroncodes planipes, but they are also known as ‘pelagic red crabs’ or ‘tuna crabs’ as they are a staple diet of tuna. Paradise Cove residents Ted Silverberg and Heather Carter were shocked when they discovered the sea of red tuna crabs that had washed ashore. While it seemed like millions were swept onto the beach, billions more were swimming in the water, just out from the beach and out past the kelp beds where a frenzy of bass were feeding on the crabs. Silverberg also noticed gulls feeding on the beached crabs but was surprised that not more birds were exploiting the all you can eat smorgasbord. Ted thought that it was unusual that so many crabs were only coming ashore inside the bay of Point Dume and not anywhere else like Zuma but surmised that the currents do converge and swirl around in the lee of Big Dume . “Once they are on the sand their life cycle has typically come to an end,” Marine Protection Officer Jeremy Frimond said. “However, some may still move slightly as their death is not instant once beached.” Early last June with the El Nino phenomenon pushing warmer than average water temperatures and south swells brought the red tuna crabs north into cooler waters and to their death. The red tuna crabs have beached before in Newport Beach and Laguna Beach, but last June’s activity in Huntington Beach stood out, said Marine Safety Lt. Michael Beuerlein. He said he hadn’t seen a similar occurrence in his 34 years with the city. “This might look like a bad day for the red crabs, but it’s a good day for shorebirds” said a director of the Southern California Marine Institute “It’s the ecosystem at work”. Schools of fish, Blue, Baleen and Gray Whales also feed and follow the crab populations during their migrations. Many pods of Gray Whales have been spotted spouting heading north in their 9,900–13,700 mile round trip migration from what is believed to be the longest annual migration of any mammal. By late December to early January, eastern Grays begin to arrive in the calving lagoons of Baja California These first whales to arrive are usually pregnant mothers looking for the protection of the lagoons to bear their calves, along with single females seeking mates. By mid-February to mid-March, the bulk of the population has arrived in the lagoons, filling them with nursing, calving and mating gray whales. Though the migrating Gray Whales off Malibu can not resist feeding on the massive groups of Red crabs The public has been cautioned not to eat the crabs because these creatures might have become poisonous after ingesting the toxin-producing phytoplankton in the red tides that can occur in the spring and early summer months.

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ENVIRONMENT From autism, to birth defects, obesity, dead butterflies and bees, crippled elk and climate change — an unprecedented amount of misery can emanate from a bottle of glyphosate — it’s a story worthy of a Michael Moore movie! In case you don’t already know, glyphosate is a primary ingredient of the most widely used broad-spectrum herbicides in the world, including the many formulations of Roundup® manufactured by Monsanto, and other trade names from Dow, DuPont, Zeneca, etc. There are more than 750 glyphosate-containing products in the U.S. alone; plenty is used in California. For 2013, the CA-Department of Pesticide Regulation reported that more than 10 million pounds of glyphosate products were applied on crops in California. And, in a 2013 survey of 246 California households, 14% were found to possess at least one glyphosate-containing product. Technically, glyphosate is the “active” ingredient, but we know that the various “inert” ingredients in glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) greatly increase the toxicity of glyphosate. These “inerts” often have significant toxicities on their own or in combination with other inerts; hence, the “inerts” are not so inert. Glyphosate alone has been classified as a probable carcinogen by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer; however, glyphosate plus its inert ingredients do so much more harm.

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As I noted in The Local Malibu (Issue 28), glyphosate is used all around us, it’s in our food, water, air, soil, and our bodies. Remember, glyphosate (and metabolites) is a systemic chemical that pervades all of a plant’s tissues, it cannot be washed off nor destroyed by cooking. In terms of our exposure via ingestion, it’s especially prevalent in: glyphosate-tolerant crops (e.g., corn, soybeans and canola); conventional grains (e.g., wheat, barley) and lentils that are sprayed pre-harvest to enhance harvesting; and in animal products (e.g., meat, eggs, butter) because the animals are fed glyphosate-treated feeds. Of course, glyphosate can be largely avoided by consuming only organically produced foods and properly filtered water, but is this what should be required for a healthy existence? Healthy food and clean water are fundamental needs and basic human rights, but these are increasingly being compromised because as the industrial agricultural uses of glyphosate have expanded, so has contamination increased in food and water. In response, the authorities periodically elevate the maximum allowable “safe” amount of glyphosate in what we eat and drink; such “adjustments” are not based on science, but on administrative convenience. A recent random sampling of organic foods has also detected some glyphosate contamination, possibly due to drift from nearby spraying of conventional or GE crops. Studies indicate that glyphosate moves off-site (drifts) during application from hundreds to a few thousand feet, depending on how applied (tractor, fixed-wing aircraft, or helicopter) and site characteristics (forested or open field). A formal study will be required to determine the full nature of the problem. Meanwhile, producers of organic foods should be encouraged to test for glyphosate contamination and to link tests to specific sources and specific batches in order to isolate the problem geographically. In humans, small amounts of glyphosate are metabolized and the rest enters the bloodstream to be excreted in the urine and feces; but it also bioaccumulates in lungs, lymph, blood, urine, bone and bone marrow, and breast milk. In mammals, glyphosate manifests slowly over time as inflammation damages cellular systems throughout the body…and we get sick! Glyphosate may be very important in the development of multiple chronic diseases and conditions prevalent in Westernized societies. These include: autism spectrum disorder; ADHD; gastrointestinal issues such as inflammatory bowel disease, colitis and Crohn’s disease; obesity; cardiovascular disease; depression; sleep disorders; cancers (including non-Hodgkins lymphoma and breast); Alzheimer’s disease; Parkinson’s disease; multiple sclerosis (MS); Celiac disease; developmental malformations/birth defects (including anencephaly); and infertility. One would hope that glyphosate and GBHs have been thoroughly tested to insure safety regarding health and environmental impacts. Following the precautionary principle, it is the responsibility of industry to prove that GBHs are safe; that is, it is not the responsibility of the public to prove they are safe. Unfortunately, it appears that the precautionary principle has been pushed aside in order to not disturb the corporate bottom line. Of great concern is that Monsanto and the U.S. EPA have known of the health and environmental impacts of glyphosate since the 1980s. And yet (unconscionably), GBHs have been allowed to be registered, produced, and sold worldwide. And because of its perceived, industry-propagandized “benign” chemistry, GBHs are widely used and often handled carelessly. Most of us understand that industrial agriculture contributes substantially to climate change via fossil fuel consumption and emissions, petroleum-based inputs, equipment, etc. However, glyphosate’s contribution is less conspicuous, and we must understand that more carbon is stored in soil organic matter than is found in all the plant biomass and CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere combined. That carbon storage/cycling (and soil fertility) depends on a healthy soil rhizosphere (the bacteria, mycorrhiza, fungi, nematode and protozoan communities in the close vicinity of plant roots). Glyphosate applications alter the rhizosphere microbial composition and disrupt the microbial metabolism and nutrient cycling resulting in much less sequestration of carbon by mycorrhizal fungi. Since glyphosate damages soil fertility, overall plant health and nutrient uptake suffer, and the resultant plant is nutrient deficient. Since glyphosate is not used on organic crops, the soil rhizosphere is healthier, and organically produced crops are more nutritious than glyphosate exposed crops. In closing, I see no role for GBHs and related toxicants in an agricultural system that should have human and environmental health as the primary goal. There is a direct link between healthy and nutritious foods grown in rich soils and the health and vitality they offer. “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” ― Hippocrates When the displays of glyphosate products disappear from the store shelves, and certified organic seals appear on restaurant menus, we will know we’re on our way to a healthier existence for humans, animals, and the environment. [This is the second of a series; for more information, see: www.laprogressive.com/ glyphosate]

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Most people naturally think El Nino was responsible for our recent rain storms. When in fact, it wasn’t. Malibu and Los Angeles may have received more rain than would have occurred naturally as a result of rarely ever used method of seeding clouds. The county of Los Angeles has conducted cloud seeding previously but stopped because of concerns that too much rain would destabilize hillsides scorched by wildfires. The practice is back due to the present historic drought conditions.The cloud seeding technique can produce 10 percent to 15 percent more rain and engineers are able to aim the particles so rain will fall on sparsely populated areas and near catch basins. “Imagine it like igniting a traffic flare that is slow-burning. And then the particles head skyward, almost like incense,” said Steven Frasher of the L.A. County Department of Public Works. Even though the Pacific is in a strong El Nino condition that usually brings heavy rains and devastating floods to Southern California ,the southern portion of the state has either dodged a bullet or is being deprived of precious and needed rainfall. Our local hills have been dry a sponge absorbing what light rains we have had and Malibu Creeks have barely sputtered past the beach berms and out to sea . Though So Cal has remained fairly dry ,the northern part of the state has been slammed by storm after storm that will have a net benefit for the entire states drinking water supplies.Together Lake Shasta and Lake Oroville, two of the states largest reservoirs have a capacity of more than 8 million acre-feet of water. After a recent wet weekend in Northern California, Lake Shasta was above its average for this time of year, and by 4 p.m. Monday Lake Oroville had surpassed its historical average, said Department of Water Resources spokesman Doug Carlson.The rising reservoirs, along with growing snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, are important because both are key sources of water for California. The snowpack now stands at 92% of normal statewide, with the northern area now at 102% of normal.

Aerial photo of the Malibu flood plain during the killer El Nino Floods of 1938 that re-arranged Surfrider point for 10 years.

In a bid to fill depleted reservoirs, the LA County Department of Public Works is “Cloud seeding.” As two march winter storms approached the Southern California, LA County officials were hoping to squeeze as much rain as possible from the fast-approaching storm clouds . It works like this: Tubes mounted on hillsides shoot microscopic silver iodide particles into the clouds. Water vapor attaches to those particles, freezes and drops to the ground as rain. Cloud seeding chemicals may be also dispersed by aircraft .The county previously engaged in cloud seeding, but stopped due to concerns that hillsides scorched by wildfires could be destabilized by additional rainfall.

MAN, WHO MAY BE GUILTY OF CHANGING THE COMPLEXITIES AND DYNAMICS OF THE ELEMENTS, MUST CONSIDER WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PLAY WITH MOTHER NATURE.

Unlike the current 2016 El Nino that has barely impacted our creeks the Spring Floods of 1979 re-arranged Malibu Canyon geology.

Pro: Increasing Precipitation Since the 1940s, scientists have been experimenting with cloud seeding. Seeding agents are typically shot into clouds as flares or dropped in from airplanes. In addition to silver iodide, dry ice and liquified gases are used to seed clouds in cold climates. Various forms of salt work best for cloud seeding projects in the tropics where cloud temperatures are above freezing. Cloud seeding projects occur all over the world, from China to Texas, and while these experiments show that seeding can increase precipitation, it is often difficult to determine the scope of that change. Con: Far-Reaching Effects Everyone shares the atmosphere, and one of the common arguments against cloud seeding cites the possibility that increasing precipitation in one area will decrease it in another area. Studies by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory have found that cloud seeding over the southeastern equatorial Pacific Ocean creates La Nina weather patterns, causing the water temperatures of the equatorial Pacific to become unusually cold. This can alter weather patterns and negatively affect the sea life in this region and the human populations who depend on those animals for food Pro: Climate Change Mitigation Some of the far-reaching effects of cloud seeding may not be all bad. The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory also found that seeding clouds over equatorial regions of the ocean can lower average global temperatures by 0.5 degrees Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit). Global temperature fluctuations vary depending on where cloud seeding projects occur, but this process has the potential to help combat the climate change caused by burning fossil fuels. The aerosols used to inject seeding agents into clouds reflect sunlight back into the atmosphere and prevent its warmth from reaching Earth’s surface Con: Polluted Clouds What goes up must come down, and this holds true for the silver iodide, salts and dry ice injected into the sky during cloud seeding projects. Silver iodide is the most commonly used seeding agent; the environmental effects of silver iodide continue to be studied, but measurements of silver content in areas near cloud-seeding projects rarely show levels of residual silver high enough to be considered toxic. Although dry ice is used less frequently, it is frozen carbon dioxide, and carbon dioxide is a major greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.

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The Local sat down recently with Malibu based musician Mike Einziger, co-founder of the Grammy nominated band Incubus, who openly reminisced about music in Malibu, recently marrying an equally talented musician and stepping outside your comfort zone. LW: What was it like for you growing up in Southern California? ME: I actually grew up in Calabasas until I was thirteen. My parents split up at that time. They stayed in Calabasas close to each other. I was in a very bad car accident my first year at Calabasas High. A friend of mine died in that accident and that kind of shook me up a bit. I felt like I needed to go someplace else. I knew Malibu because I had been surfing out here since I was in middle school. Actually I was in Malibu all the time. LW: And your mom drove around in a van teaching music? ME: Well my mom was a music teacher when I was young. She was part of a program that the L.A. Philharmonic did, called The Music Mobile. She drove around in a cute little van filled with musical instruments and she would go to preschools and I was like her little helper. She would teach the kids about all the different instruments. She would play guitar and sing to the kids. We had a very musical house and musical upbringing. When we were really young, my siblings and I would sing and play together. My mom was obviously very influential in that respect. LW: So you decided to start a band in high school? ME: We started when we were in tenth grade. Incubus is still the only band I’ve been in. It’s kind of crazy. All we wanted to do was surf, skate and make music. That was it. That’s all we could do. We didn’t even drive yet. LW: When you guys started Incubus did you have any idea that you would become as successful as you are? ME: I didn’t have any idea. That was the last thing on my mind. At that age – there were times we would be in a room together and we would start playing and everything would all lock up together. Everything was the way it needed to be. It was the coolest feeling I could ever imagine. It’s like when you catch your first wave. I was just totally overcome with this feeling that this is something I could do for the rest of my life. My parents would have to make me go to sleep at night because I was totally obsessed. I would stay up all night writing and playing music. LW: Tell me about the music scene out here back in the day.

ME: There were a lot of young people in Malibu making music. There were a bunch of local bands back then. There was Cisco Adler and Whitestarr. I’ve known him and his brother Nik and their father Lou forever. They own the Roxy and they were very key in booking a lot of our early Incubus shows. We played at the Roxy a lot. They used to play at the Malibu Inn all the time. And Blake Mills is from Malibu. He’s an incredible musician. He just produced the Alabama Shakes album, which won a bunch of Grammys. He used to play in a band called Simon Dawes. The band has become just “Dawes” since Blake left the band. They have had a lot of success more recently as well. It was very close. I remember Taylor, (lead singer of Dawes) his mom heard I had moved in a few doors away and I remember she knocked on my door with a flyer and said, “Please come and see my son’s band play. Later on I ended up becoming friends with Taylor. I am really proud of them. There are some really talented musicians here that are local. LW: Is it true that you recently got married? What else is going on? ME: Yeah. Yeah. Two and a half weeks ago I married my fiancé of 5 years. Her name is Anne Marie. We got married in a little town in Northern California. She’s a violinist. She’s an incredible musician. She has performed with many artists (Ringo Starr, Dave Stewart, Mick Jagger to name a few.) Most recently now she is working with Hans Zimmer film composing. In a few days we’re going on tour in Europe with Hans. It’s a retrospective of his favorite film music. We just finished scoring a Sean Penn film with Hans. It’s called “The Last Face.” It’s been really awesome working with Sean. I didn’t know him before this project but he’s one of the most talented actors and directors. He’s just a visionary guy. It’s been really interesting getting to know him and his process. He loves music so much. He likes to try a lot of different things and he’s really good at explain what he wants. So it’s fun, you know. And Hans is really a great collaborator. We’ve done a lot of work together. LW: Is there anything new from Incubus coming? ME: We’re writing new Incubus music for an album that will come together over the next few months. I’m also concentrating some energy on starting a family and building a new house. LW: Are you involved in any kind of philanthropy? ME: Absolutely. My band has a non-profit foundation called “The Make Yourself Foundation.” We have a website: www.makeyourselffoundation.org We work with a lot of different charities. Basically we auction off a certain amount of VIP tickets for a bunch of dates on a tour. At the end of it we raise a lot of money. We give grants to different organizations that are important to us, such as Zeno Mountain Farm, The Red Cross, Heal The Bay and The Carbon War Room. LW: What advice do you have for younger artists or younger people in general?

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ME: I would say to follow your instincts and do what you love. Because if you do what you love, everything good comes from that. Trust your inner compass. Being open-minded and brave is really the most important thing. You really have to be brave in this world. Fear of failure is a huge obstacle. In order to be an artist and share your work with the world you have to be brave cause a lot of people are gonna judge it. LW: So how does one be brave? ME: It sounds cliché but it’s true. I’ve missed opportunities because I wasn’t brave enough. Being brave means leaving your comfort zone. By willingly doing things that you don’t want to do. Whether it’s getting in front of a bunch of people or whatever. You have to take that leap or you won’t get anywhere.

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WHAT IF TRUMP AND CRUZ FOUGHT A DUEL? BY BEN MARCUS Donald Trump just insulted Ted Cruz’s wife as publicly as a person can be insulted these days - on Twitter. Cruz responded by calling Trump “a coward” and vowed to beat him for the Republican nomination.

If wife-slandering and using the c word spanks of Andrew Jackson and Charles Dickinson in 1806, or the level of hate between two powerful men smells like Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr in 1804, you are remembering your history correctly. A hundred years ago, publicly insulting someone’s wife or calling a man a coward would have left a gentleman with no recourse - a duel was an affair of honor, and the best way to settle scores. “Gentleman” might be a stretch when applied to Trump or Cruz, but a hundred years ago, if two politicians had insulted each other the way those two guys are, it would have been on: Pistols at paces or swords. Definitely not a Twitter battle. With no apologies forthcoming, they would have dueled and one of them might have died. Dueling is as old as David and Goliath, but it was the fighting Irish who codified the practice of dueling and points of honor in 1777, in what was called the Code Duello. Reading this code is like untangling Shakespeare or any kind of legalese, but if you can figure it out, the Code Duello is very specific on all points.

Rules 10 and 11 apply specifically to Cruz v. Trump: Rule 10. Any insult to a lady under a gentleman’s care or protection to be considered as, by one degree, a greater offense than if given to the gentleman personally, and to be regulated accordingly. Rule 11. Offenses originating or accruing from the support of ladies’ reputations, to be considered as less unjustifiable than any others of the same class, and as admitting of slighter apologies by the aggressor: this to be determined by the circumstances of the case, but always favorable to the lady. In essence, if someone insults a gentleman’s chick, the gentleman should react with greater vengeance and more furious anger than if the insult was aimed at the gentleman. The code was drawn up by gentlemen, for gentlemen, and was accepted throughout Europe and Great Britain and even in America - with local variations and evolutions based on changing times and tastes. Before he was the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson was a proud Tennessean and a scrapper, married to “the love of his life,” the former Miss Rachel Donelson Robbards - a divorcee, which was beyond scandalous among the upper classes of that time. Jackson was not hesitant to take up a pistol to settle a score and his duels are numbered at anywhere from five to a hundred.

OPINION But his duel against a Tennessee lawyer named Charles Dickinson was witnessed and recorded, according to History.com: Jackson and Dickinson were rival horse breeders and southern plantation owners with a long-standing hatred of each other. Dickinson accused Jackson of reneging on a horse bet, calling Jackson a coward and an equivocator. Dickinson also called Rachel Jackson a bigamist. (Rachel had married Jackson not knowing her first husband had failed to finalize their divorce.) After the insult to Rachel and a statement published in the National Review in which Dickinson called Jackson a worthless scoundrel and, again, a coward, Jackson challenged Dickinson to a duel. Dickinson insulted Jackson’s wife - like Heidi Cruz, “the love of his life” - and called him a coward, and it was on. According to Rule 16, they could have used swords or pistols, although swords were considered Old School in the early 19th Century. Rule 16. The challenged has the right to choose his own weapon, unless the challenger gives his honor he is no swordsman; after which, however, he can decline any second species of weapon proposed by the challenged. Dickinson was the challenged and a top marksman, so he chose pistols.

The where and how was determined by Rule 17: Rule 17. The challenged chooses his ground; the challenger chooses his distance; the seconds fix the time and terms of firing. And that’s how it went down. On May 30, 1806, Jackson and Dickinson and their seconds met at Harrison’s Mills on the Red River in Logan, Kentucky - Dickinson’s home turf. They stood 24 paces from each other (24 x 30” = 60 feet) and fired pistols. Jackson took a bullet to the chest which broke ribs, but he stayed standing. Some say Jackson’s first shot was a misfire, which, according to the Code meant the duel was over. Rule 20. In all cases a miss-fire is equivalent to a shot, and a snap or non-cock is to be considered as a miss-fire. But Jackson fired a second shot, which killed Dickinson and silenced any talk of bigamy - but maybe not of cowardice. Jackson ran for president in 1829, but the murder by dueling of another American did not affect his performance. The guy insulted Jackson’s wife and called him a coward, a scoundrel and an equivocator. Of course he popped a cap in him. That is what a gentleman did. The painter Manet, the writer Alexander Pushkin, Shakespeare contemporary Ben Johnson - all were involved in duels over the centuries. Declaration of Independence signer Button Gwinnett was killed in a duel, and Abraham Lincoln narrowly avoided a duel when he apologized to a fellow Illinois state official he had slurred in a newspaper. But the most famous duel was former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton squaring off against Aaron Burr in July of 1804. The hatred between these two ran deep. When Burr ran for governor of New York, Hamilton went after him like Donald Trump going after Cruz and everyone else - and Burr challenged Hamilton to an affair of honor. According to some historians, Hamilton had no intention of shooting Burr, which would have been an affront to Rule 13:

OPINION Rule 13. No dumb shooting or firing in the air is admissible in any case. The challenger ought not to have challenged without receiving offense; and the challenged ought, if he gave offense, to have made an apology before he came on the ground; therefore, children’s play must be dishonorable on one side or the other, and is accordingly prohibited. Whether Hamilton engaged in children’s play or he just missed, he paid the ultimate price with a bullet to the gut. Hamilton died a day later, causing shock and outrage across the country. Think of President Obama’s kindly, surfing, fly-fishing Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner getting killed by Eliot Spitzer. Kind of like that. Burr was accused of murder, arrested for treason for another act, fled to Europe, then returned to America when the heat was off and stayed out of prison. Dueling was never illegal in America, but the acceptance of it faded by the time of the Civil War. But that was then and this is now. The enmity between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz is every bit as heated as what went down between Jackson and Dickinson, and Hamilton and Burr. Trump insulted Cruz’ wife in front of the whole country. Cruz called Trump a coward, just as publicly. These guys do not like each other, history is at stake, and they are slapping each other with the perfumed glove of Twitter and social media. Should they throw down? Preposterous, you say? Can that word even be applied to the 2016 presidential campaign? Inconceivable? I don’t think you are using that word correctly. If Trump and Cruz did decide to duel, and they followed that code laid down in 1777, this is how it would go down: Rule 1. The first offense requires the first apology, though the retort may have been more offensive than the insult. Example: A tells B he is impertinent, etc. B retorts that he lies; yet A must make the first apology because he gave the first offense, and then (after one fire) B may explain away the retort by a subsequent apology. Trump was guilty of the first offense - insulting Cruz’ wife, so he would be required to apologize. We all know how good Trump is at that, so on to Rule 2.

The Code Duello is very specific on the roles of the seconds - loading pistols, for example: Rule 18. The seconds load in presence of each other, unless they give their mutual honors they have charged smooth and single, which should be held sufficient. But there isn’t a lot of criteria on how to choose your second: Rule 14. Seconds to be of equal rank in society with the principals they attend, inasmuch as a second may either choose or chance to become a principal, and equality is indispensible. (sic) Should Cruz and Trump meet in an affair of honor: who would be their seconds? Trump would probably tap one of his sons - maybe Eric the elephant hunter who seems comfortable around weapons. Cruz could have a lottery, sell tickets, and increase his war chest by millions.

Former Surfer Magazine editor and Malibu resident Ben Marcus is now living in Waikiki and working on his tan and various projects. This story ran shortened on popzette.com benmarcusrules.com

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As we woke up and turned on the news in preparation for another work day last week, we were once again faced with breaking news of yet another ISIS attack in Europe. The attack taking place this time in Brussels, Belgium.

BY KANDACE MURPHY

The death toll continued to rise throughout the day, listing 34 deceased by the evening, and more than 200 injured. Online news feeds showed jihadists in the Islamic State passing out candy to children in Syria in celebration of the Brussels attack. Similar newscasts aired after the Paris attacks of Radical Islam celebrating in Libya. Footage of Al-Quaeda declaring victory also hit the airwaves after the 9/11 murders of nearly 3,000 Americans. Brussels, which is also home to the United Nations quickly condemned the terrorist bombings as threats to international peace and security, but it is unclear how Belgium will address the growing populations of Muslim refugees that continue to flood throughout Europe. President Obama, who was on a historic trip to Cuba, spoke briefly about the attack during a prescheduled speech, however did not deviate from his trip schedule upon receiving the news that included American casualties. Instead, Obama continued his plans to attend an invitation only baseball game sitting next to Raul Castro who Human Rights groups have concluded continues to keep Cuba’s repressive regime in place. It has been known as a challenge for Obama to address Radical Islam, calling them the “JV team” instead of acknowledging that the growing number of Islamic extremists have declared war on all infidels and western culture. While Brussels was in disarray and the State Department was attempting to confirm more Americans among the dead, Obama was dancing the tango in Cuba, a move similar to golfing right after the address on the ISIS beheading of journalist, James Foley. Obama’s reluctance to address Radical Islam was clealry evident when he declared ISIS contained the day before the Paris attacks was a no show at the global gathering of world leaders who locked arms in a show solidarity and defiance in the streets of Paris.

HIDING IN PLAIN SITE: ISIS waving their flag in the streets of Brussels only a few months ago.

Each running presidential candidate exploited the chance to comment on the attacks, claiming of they had the correct resolution to the decimation of ISIS. The Republican candidates have been in support of closing the borders - a move many countries in Europe are considering now as the threat of future attacks looms large and a strategy that has proven to be successful in Israel. Yet Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton chooses an opposing view stating “It is unrealistic to shut the borders.” Senator Bernie Sanders avoided any discussion on borders but was clear when condemning the actions of the “cowardly” terrorists and urged the international community to come together. Yet with the drastic rise of ISIS attacks in the last year, Obama is still reluctant to admit that ISIS is technically committing genocide against Christians, Kurds, Shiites and other religious minorities, yet an unprecedented vote in Congress just passed a resolution 383-0 that declares ISIS is committing genocide.

HIDING IN PLAIN SITE: ISIS waving their flag in the streets of Brussels only a few months ago.

Aides to the President have eluded that Obama’s non-chalance towards ISIS is pre-meditated and that reacting in any other way elevates extremist groups like Islamic State in a way that exaggerates their influence. While that may be so, ISIS is clearly winning the PR campaign.

Kandace Murphy has been a financial and political correspondant on radio and televison and is currently a mortgage broker for Priority Financial Network.

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BY DAVID ZIELSKI, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF RAINCATCHER On World Water Day, held annually on March 22, people around the globe focus on the importance of access to clean water and how they have the power to make a difference. They are inspired by the stories of others and use it to take action themselves. For the third year in a row, the motivated students - and self-proclaimed Kindness Heroes - at Gannet Peak Elementary School in Lander, Wyoming will raise money for clean water by hosting a Push Ups for Uganda event. This year, I will be making my way to Lander on March 22 to thank these children and the community for the impact they have made – and to drop down and do 20 pushup with the children at 8:15am mountain standard time. Push Ups for Uganda first began in 2013 when our Global Ambassador, Tyson Mayr, decided to do 10,000 pushups in 10 days during a trip to Uganda with me as a way to raise awareness about the water crisis. With local children gleefully sitting on his back, he met his goal and also raised $5,000 for Raincatcher.org . Third grade school teacher, Jamie Franzen, from Gannet Peak Elementary was following Tyson’s push ups campaign on Facebook and decided to coordinate a similar campaign with her class. Her students in Lander were surprised and saddened to learn of the challenges that face the school children in Uganda and immediately wanted to help. On World Water Day 2014, the entire school (joined by Tyson) did push ups to raise funds for clean water at elementary schools in Uganda. One student from Ms. Franzen’s class has become an official RainCatcher Junior Ambassador due to his personal efforts to support our cause. Connor Higginbotham is working hard to raise awareness and money to get clean water to kids in Uganda. This will be his third year participating in the Push Ups for Uganda event. Connor approached all of Lander’s local businesses and asked for donations to have a raffle. He also made art work and bracelets to sell. During the holidays, Connor wrapped presents and held a bake sale to raise funds for RainCatcher.org. His efforts have raised more than $1500! It turns out that Connor’s dream job is to be the Executive Director of RainCatcher.org so he can help the kids in Uganda full-time. RainCatcher.org’s story is one of the most compelling on Earth: how a simple technology can bring safe, clean drinking water to the 650 million people who currently lack it. Lack of access to safe water sources leads to people’s lives and livelihoods being compromised – especially children under age 5. In Uganda, there is no shortage of water given by nature, only a shortage of water being captured and distributed efficiently.

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LOCAL Since this article is about a school district and education let’s start with a math problem: Is $8 million greater than $1.5 million? I hope for the sake of America’s future, you said “yes.” Now, here’s a tougher question: why is Santa Monica-Malibu School District spending $8 million in taxpayer money to avoid removing cancer-causing PCBs in Malibu public school classrooms, which would only cost $750,000 to $1.5 million? If you can’t answer that one, you are not alone. Here’s another puzzler: If you conduct 24 tests for toxic chemicals and get 24 positive results do you a) keep testing or b) stop testing and say there is no reason to keep going? The district is pursuing option “b.”

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It seems to me that our school board needs to go back to school. Here are the facts: The district’s own PCB tests of 24 locations at Juan Cabrillo Elementary and Malibu High all turned up positive. And the results were sky-high: one location tested at 570,000 parts per million, the highest ever recorded at an American school. The EPA threshold for PCBs is just 50 parts per million. The district’s response to those tests? Stop testing. When Malibu parent Cindy Crawford offered to pay for source testing of the schools, the district refused. So money is obviously not the issue. PCBs are human carcinogens. (World Health Organization) PCBs are deadly, cause cancer and other life-altering, diseases. They threaten students’ IQ and behavioral development, too. We know why they were in our schools in the first place – PCBs were a common component of construction materials like window caulking through the 1970s, when they were banned by Congress. But why are they still there? Today, 30 cases of cancer, thyroid disease, melanoma and other maladies have been linked to PCBs in Malibu schools. That’s the real cost, beyond the district’s out of control spending. A school district’s refusal to protect kids and teachers is why this issue is in court – parents and teachers had to file a federal lawsuit after a year and a half of the district ignoring the science and the law. Note that parents and teachers are not asking for any money; only for PCB removal to proactively protect kids and the teachers.

America Unites for Kids President, Jennifer deNicola speaks to a room of over 100 about the importable of removal of PCBs in our nation’s schools.

Let’s go back to the testing – it’s juicy. Understandably, parents and teachers were not satisfied with the district’s decision to halt testing and pretend that if they don’t test, there are no PCBs. So they took some small samples of their own – samples which of course tested positive for dangerous levels of PCBs.The district’s response: they called the cops. That’s right, they called the Sherriff’s Department and accused the parents of felony vandalism for protecting their children and their teachers health. They wanted to put parents in prison for teaspoon sized samples of 60 year old caulking that is considered a hazardous waste. Or did they want to bury evidence of their PCB cover up and were willing to resort to jailing parents who stood up to their tyrannical tactics? In addition to telling the sherriff, the District’s Superintendent Lyon told parents in a letter that the incident resulted in “tens of thousands of dollars in damage and the destruction of school property.”

PCB expert researcher from University of Albany, David Carpenter, M.D., answers questions from concerned parent Soniya Perl.

But District officials got a lesson in criminal law when the District Attorney declined to file charges, and pointed out to them that 1) there was no evidence that any damage even met the vandalism threshold of $400 and 2) that the samples in fact found high levels of cancer-causing chemicals, making prosecution not “fair and just,” in the DA office’s words and 3) there is no malicious intent in trying to protect your kids. Case closed? Not when the SMMUSD has taxpayer dollars to spend! The district then launched a $160,000+ private investigation of the parents’ alleged vandalism. This for alleged damages that the District Attorney claimed they could not even find $400 in damages (which the parents vigorously deny, by the way). Even after this, the district’s paid environmental consultant, Douglas Dourghtery signed a declaration to the court claiming that there were $90,000-$120,000 in actual damage from the tiny caulk samples. As this story gets more interesting, a few months later, the district filed to be reimbursed for $106,000 in attorneys fees for a 15 page motion, which the Judge called excessive and unsubstantiated and cut it down to a quarter of that. Then the district filed $56,000 for damages. But wait, when looking at the details of this, $55,000+ were fees owed to Environ to figure out what the actual damage costs. The actual cost to repair the damage to remediation, as reported in a filed declaration by District CFO and Assistant Superintendent Jan Mae, only $193.

Dr. Carpenter speaking with parent Larry Droeger.

Yes you read that correctly: $193. This same damage, the District claimed just 3 months prior was tens of thousands of dollars of damage. They filed a police report of over $19,000 in damage and told the court that there was $90,000$120,000 in damages, turns out to cost only $193. Let’s look at the big picture. If it cost the district $106,000 in legal fees to file a 15 page motion in December 2015, then it is appropriate to assume that the next 3 similar filings, with far more page (in the 100’s) to attempt to recover these excessive fees paid to Pillsbury and Environ (which are not recoverable by sanctions) would also cost the same amount. This brings the district’s costs to over $400,000 because of $193 in repair to the encapsulation. Who’s bright idea was that? Was their a vote? If so, whomever did that math, must be removed from their duty. This is tax-payer money for education and $400,000 can pay lot of teachers’ salaries and books needed for education and quite frankly, that amount of money could pay for the portable classrooms that teachers and parents have been asking for over two years to get kids and teachers out of these PCB contaminated buildings.

A room of over 100 concerned parents attend a lecture from world expert David Carpenter at Pepperdine University, hosted by the Environmental Law Society, to learn about the health effects of PCBs that have been identified at the Malibu Schools.

In an place of education, where they teach that knowledge is power, the school district wants to bury evidence, hide the truth and spend $8 million in tax payer money for their own personal liability. A Malibu child summed it quite perfectly back in November 2015 at a school board meeting, “What you’re doing right now, it’s a really bad example of how to be a good adult.” While the court decides whether PCB removal should be ordered for Malibu’s classrooms, I submit my case: let’s send the district’s tyrannical leaders back to math, science and economics class. And maybe an ethics class, too. Their actions are dangerous and shameful. Right now, they deserve an F.

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LIFESTYLE Many people are searching for some sort of meaning behind the experience of this modern world. When they deeply connect with nature, they often find that they resonate with what ancient cultures have known all along... Since the beginning of time, the shape of the circle has been used as a divine universal symbol. It has symbolized the ongoing energy found in nature. Celtics used circles for protection. Chinese used circles to symbolize heaven. It was also used by many ancient cultures as a symbol of Mother Earth, the universe, unity, infinity, perfection, the female…and the list goes on and on! (Pun intended!) Even in todays’ society, we use the circle of the wedding ring to represent love that does not end.

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Native Tribes of North America hold the circle in very high esteem. Although each Nation may have it representing different things, it is widely known as the Sacred Hoop and used as a symbol for the Circle of Life. The Medicine Wheel is a representation of the sacred circle and can take many forms. They are traditionally used for health and healing. Some Medicine Wheels are built with rocks and other sacred objects on the land…and some are made as artwork to be placed or hung in areas that need healing. Each Medicine Wheel is extremely individual. Knowledge gathered in ceremony, visions, or dreams help to create the Medicine Wheel that is needed for the specific healing purpose. Traditionally, Medicine Wheels have two intersecting lines in the middle, creating four equal parts that can represent the Four Directions, the Four Seasons, the Four Stages of Life, the Four Elements, and many more. Medicine Wheels may have many more sections, like a spike on a wheel…or just two sections representing above and below. It all depends on what the specific Medicine Wheel is being created for. The dream catcher, on the other hand, can sometimes be mistaken for a medicine wheel. The most obvious difference is that the dream catcher has a web woven inside of the sacred hoop. It is believed that the origin of the Native American dream catcher is from the Ojibwa Chippewa tribe. The premise of the dream catcher is that there are many forces, some good and some bad. If we listen to the good forces, they will steer us in the right direction. But, if we listen to the bad forces, they can steer us in the wrong direction and may hurt us. So these forces can either help us, or can interfere with the harmony of Nature. Originally, dream catchers were made to protect children from these bad forces or spirits while they slept. Dream catchers could also be hung in the center of lodges to bless everyone with harmony and protection. There are many different versions of what the original story may have been…but the common thread (yes another pun intended!) is that the dream catcher acts as a filter. Just as a spider weaves her web to catch bugs, the dream catcher’s web catches “bugs” on spirit level…which then get destroyed by the dawn’s first light. The spider is a very important aspect of the dream catcher. She is commonly known as the “Weaver of Fate” and the bearer of creative energy. Spiders are a symbol of that which is forever repairing the eternal web of life… weaving all of our dreams and energy into the universe. Dreams are how many people remember lessons and get their visions...they have provided medicine men, shamans, prophets, and visionaries around the world a portal to another realm of understanding. By deeply connecting to the symbols and tools that hold universal truth, we can receive “medicine” needed to awaken ourselves in this dream that we are now all experiencing together…and create beautiful visions of the future for our future generations! Thankfully we have wonderful beings, like the Chumash, here to hold the space for such knowledge… looking forward to the Chumash event in Malibu, April 9th and 10th ! Sweet Dreams and Sweet Awakenings!

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